AAT beach clean-up from Mount Lavinia to Dehiwala

Saturday, 21 September 2019 00:00 - - {{hitsCtrl.values.hits}}

A beach clean-up campaign was carried out recently by the Association of Accounting Technicians of Sri Lanka (AAT Sri Lanka) under its CSR program ‘AAT Social Mission’, from the Mount Lavinia beach to Dehiwala railway station.

It was a sunny day, the staff and the members of AAT Sri Lanka were gathered near the hotel Shore By O and started the activity in the early morning. Since this is the off season for the western and southern beach side there was plenty of garbage and polythene that drifted to the beach. The main purpose of this CSR was to collect the polythene and plastic items which could affect the sea life and also to make sure the beauty of the beach side is preserved as it is a main tourist attraction in the Colombo city side.

This was the third CSR project hosted by the AAT Sri Lanka during the last two months and as a pioneer educational institute AAT Sri Lanka is focusing more on social services to make sense about the need of a safe environment to the general public. The campaign was very successful; they were able to collect over 30 kg of plastic from the beach side and all the trash was directly handed over to the municipal council trucks.